Politics 101

The Left needs Racism to Exist so they can Continue the Fight to End Racism

George Zimmerman had what pretty much everyone said was a fair trial. And extensive attempts to detect a racial motivation have been in vain. Most people seem to agree that race was not a factor in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Yet since the ‘not guilty’ verdict some have been saying things like if Trayvon Martin was a white kid Zimmerman would not have followed him. And that if Martin was a white kid and a black man shot him a jury would have found that black man guilty of first degree murder.

These things are so obvious that some people (primarily those on the political left) are demanding the federal government charge Zimmerman with a race-based hate crime. And for violating Martin’s civil rights. Despite pretty much everyone having said it was a fair trial. And extensive attempts to detect a racial motivation have been in vain. But it’s now about race. Why? And where is their concern for what’s happening in Chicago? Where the black on black murder rate is soaring?

Government fixes problems. And Big Government fixes big problems. Problems like racism. By creating agencies and writing legislation to end racism. Increasing the size of the government. And increasing their power. Putting more and more people into powerful positions. Earning large salaries. While activists agitate. Getting more time in the news whenever they speak out against racism. Staying relevant. And allowing them to collect vast sums of money to continue the fight to end racism. Which brings us to why the political left is giving the Zimmerman case a racial component when none exists. For they need racism to exist. So they can continue the fight to end racism. Because it gives them power. And pays them so well.

The Left has transformed Rugged Individualism into Complacency, Lethargy and Subservience

The political left wants to expand the size of government. They want the government to do more for the people. Like the social democracies in Europe. And they want the people to be dependent on the government. With the government redistributing ever more wealth. And they want to be the people deciding who gets this redistributed wealth. Because of the power it gives them. And the wealth. For the more wealth that passes through the government the more they can skim off the top. So they can make ‘investments’ in selected businesses. Businesses, coincidentally, that their friends own. Who return the favor with campaign donations. From the very tax money they ‘invested’ in those businesses.

But their crony capitalist friends in business are not the only recipients of government largesse. The government gives alms to the people. To make them dependent on government. Form Social Security to Medicare to Obamacare to food stamps. Not a lot to make their lives really comfortable. But enough that they can survive without working. Getting them complacent. Lethargic. And subservient. A permanent underclass. Afraid to lose their government benefits. So they keep voting the political left into office. To keep their benefits. Keeping them complacent. Lethargic. And subservient. A long way from the rugged individualism of our grandfathers.

But it’s just not the crony capitalism. And the alms. There are also the agencies and the legislation. And the vast government bureaucracy. That becomes so entrenched that it becomes impossible to get rid of it. Which is why government only grows. It never shrinks. Because government bureaucracies take on a life of their own. And like any living organism they grow. And the more agencies and legislation for that permanent underclass the greater that vast government bureaucracy is. The more positions of power. And the more money that passes through government.

The Left is making the Zimmerman Verdict about Race because it gives them Purpose, Power and Wealth

During the mid 1800s the majority of southerners lived and worked on family-owned farms. Were poor. And did not own slaves. For slaves were expensive. The great slave populations were on the plantations. Owned by the rich planter class. Who ran the government. A true Old World aristocracy if there ever was one. You’ve seen Gone with the Wind. Glorious mansions. Huge landholdings. Servants. And family names so great they were nearly royalty. People treated them like royalty. And they expected the people to treat them as royalty. For they were. In the plantation South. And this was what they were fighting to preserve. That part of the Old World that the United States broke free from. Where some people were better than you based on their birth. And it mattered what your last name was.

So they plunged their people into war. Telling them it was about states’ rights. And northern aggression. When it was nothing more than these few people, the planter elite, the southern Democrats, trying to keep the South in the 18th century. With them enjoying their positions of privilege. While the masses toiled for them. In fact they were so exalted that they actually owned human beings. Like barons. And earls. And dukes. They liked that world. Just as landowning aristocracies have for millennium. Then the Founding Fathers had to come along and muck everything up. With their “all men are created equal.” And their Constitution. Creating a government of the people. Instead of what it should be. A government of the privileged elite. Then that abominable Abraham Lincoln. And his “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” How they hated that. And ever since losing the Civil War the southern Democrats struggled to maintain their position of privilege.

The descendants of those southern Democrats, liberals, still seek privilege and power. And few have suffered as much to advance their cause than blacks. They destroyed the black family with Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Where the government replaced the father in the black families on AFDC. Saying these women didn’t need to get married. Or live with the fathers of their children. So black children grew up without fathers. Or male role models. Which spurred the creation of Big Brothers. To provide positive role models for these black kids harmed by liberal policies. So they wouldn’t turn to the streets. Or gangs. Which they did. And still do. In alarming numbers. And today little has changed in the black community. The vast majority of black children are born to single mothers. And the streets of Chicago run red with the blood of black teens and young adults. But the political left doesn’t care about these blacks. Because their deaths can’t help them politically. Especially when it’s their policies that caused all of this violence. But when a light-skin Hispanic (who those on the left called a ‘white’ Hispanic) kills a black teen, why, that’s close enough to a white man killing a black teen. And THAT can help them politically. Which is why the left is making this a case about race. Because it gives the left purpose. And purpose leads to power and wealth.